Fencepost



C. B. BAUMGARINER.

FENcEPosT. l APPLICATION FILED MAY Z0, 1919.

Patented June 15, 1920.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

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FENCEPOST.

Application filed May 20,

To all 'LU/wm it may concern: y

Be it known that I, CHARLES I5. BAUM- GARTNER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Manchester, Delaware county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fenceposts, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to improvements in fence posts, and the objects of my improvenientsare, first, to supply a fence post or any other standard which has to be implanted in the ground with anchoringmeans which, while not preventing the driving of the post downwardly into the soil, will resist displacement or removal of the post; and second, to provide the post with fastening-means with which wires may be easily manually engaged or disengaged, but which resist displacement of the wires by ordinary stresses.

These objects I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are-respectively front and side elevations of my improved fence post and its anchoring-means, showing the lower part of the post with said anchoring-means, ernbedded in the ground. Fig. 3 is an enlarged front elevation of the upper part of the post, illustrating the method of either engaging or disengaging a wire from the engaging means thereon. Fig. 4: is an enlarged cross section ofthe post, taken in line with the top edge of the anchoringmeans, showing the latter in plan. Figs. 5 and G are respectively a horizontal crosssection, and a rear elevation of said device, modified. l

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The post 1 illustrated is a T-bar having Y the usual medial web 2, but the post may be of any other desired type of cross section.

The anchoring-means consists of an elongated plate 8 of metal secured medially crosswise of the post, as shown. As the post 1 is of T-barsection, the plate is riveted on its back opposite the web 2, and itsV parts are directed thence oppositely but both formed slopingly at 11 and 13 respectiveiy, then bent in the same direction as Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 15, 1920.

1919. Serial No. 298,454.

the web 2, parallel therewith and with each other, to form vertical side-walls 9 and 10, then bent angularly and inwardly toward each other in such a way as to form sloping walls 12 and 14C, and then bent at right angles toward the post with their extremities positioned vertically and contacting with opposite faces of the web 2, to which web they are fastened by a bolt Gand nut?. The plate 8 when thus bent and shaped about 'the post, provides two like hollow bodies extending from opposite sides of the web 2, which open upwardly and downwardly approximately vertically or lengthwise ofthe post. The hollow` bodiesfthus supplied may have their walls all arranged longitudinally of the post Vinstead of having parts sloped, and will be efficient anchoring-means when so formed as the inner walls inclose and frictionally engage a considerable quantity of compacted soil which adheres thereto and tends to resist detachment. However, when the walls 11 and 127 which are sloped in one direction, and the walls 13 and 14, which are sloped in the opposite direction, engage and are embedded in the soil, their projectional surfaces,

as indicated in Fin. Ll offer much greater` resistance to displacement of the post or its removal upwardly from the soil. The anchoring-means may be otherwise bent as it is not necessary that its outline shall be of a specific type. It does not materially impede the driving of the post into the soil to the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the oppositely directed slopes of the two hollow bodies tend to balance the device in driving the post straight downwardly. This opposite sloping of the two sets of inner wallsialso balances the post while in the ground as against stresses in either of opposite directions, and the whole device firmly anchors the post in the ground.

i I have supplied the post with a plurality of like fastening-means for receiving and holding parallel horizontal wires 15. To provide the fastening-means for each wire, the web 2 is both punched out at 5 rectangularly and also slotted angularly from one angle of the orifice 5 to both supply a vertically directed tongue 3 andl a horizontal shoulder 4; intermediate of said tongue. This permits the tongue to be bent away laterally at a slight angle from the body of the web.

. being passed over the upper end of theV The method of either inserting or with-v ally at opposite sides of the web 2 to slacken it sufliciently to permit of its bending Aand tongue 3, and thence downwardly into the opening 5 where, when released, it will engage the shoulder 4. lThe shoulder 4L prevents withdrawal of the wire by vupward movement, while the tongue 3 prevents its escape horizontally. The wire can only `be detached byl reversaloi: the above operation. It will-,be 'seen thatA wires may be easily manually engagedV or disengaged by said means, and yet cannot escape through the operation'of forces exerted inone direction.

In Figs.v v5 and 6, is shown a modified form of anchoring-means, inV which the plate S Yis reversed inits application kto the post 1, and consists of a rectangular plate bent to forni a rectangular hollow body with extremities 12 and 14: overlapped and secured to the post 1 by boltsV 1Gand nuts 17,.V ThisV hollow body like-wise resists withdrawal of the post 1 from the soil by its rictional engagement therewith.

VI-Iaving described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In combination, a standard having a longitudinal rib, a plate secured to the standard, and being shaped and located relative to the standard and its rib to inclose both and form therewith a pair of inclined open-ended chambers-on opposite sides of the rib.

2. In combination, av standard, and a plate secured thereto medially and transversely, the plate being shaped to inclose the standard and to provide a pair of upwardly opening hollow bodies, of which opposite parts of each are inclined angularly'to the standard, with the inclination ofsaid parts in one body being opposite to the inclination of the like parts in the other body. i

Signed at Manchester, Ia., this 2nd day of May, 1919. f f

CHARLES B. BAUMGARTNER. 

